Torprdo Warfare.
The weapons used for under-water
warfare are called "torpedoes."
There are two kinds of torpedoes :
those that are anchored in one place
and those that swim about in the
water. Of those that are anchored
there are also two kinds. One kind
consists of great iron boxes tilled with
dynamite and sunk in the water at
particular places. They rest in the
mud, or on the sand or stones, till they
are ready to be tired, when they blow
up or explode with terrible effect; and
if a ship happens to he passing over
one of them she is sure to be torn to
pieces. The other kind have a tloat
anchored just out of sight under water,,
while the torpedo rests on the bottom. '
These, too, when they explode, destroy i
anything that happens to he near.
There are two ways of firing these
ground torpedoes; In one there is a !
wire carefully protected from the j
water, leading from the torpedo to the
shore. Tho soldiers in charge of it
can send electricity through this wire i
and set fire to the dynamite, and t HIIH |
fire the torpedo. The torpedo is lost
and destroyed, but tiro broken wire
can be pulled ashore, and used again on
another torpedo. The second method
is to fasten to the torpedo a wooden j
float. If one of the enemy's ships
passes over such a torpedo and happens
to strike and push aside tho tloat that
is anchored just over it, this will also
fire the torpedo, for the chain or rope
that anchors the float is connected
with tho torpedo, and any strain or
pull on the rope discharges it. In tfiis
way the ship itself may fire the torpe
do, and thus become an agent of its
own destruction.
The swimming torpedoes are of two
kinds. One of these swims like a fish,
and, if it strikes its nose against a
ship, explodes, and sinks the vessel by
tearing a terrible hole in the bottom.
Another kind can also swim, but it
carries fastened to its tail a long wire
which it drags through the water
wherever it goes. By means of this
wire, the soldier who stands at the end.
on the shore, or the sailor on board
ship, can make the fish turn to the
right or left, dive, turn around, go
backward, or come home again when
it is wanted. Besides this, the fish
will blow up if it strikes against the
enemy's ship, or whenever the man at
the wire wishes to fire it. The govern
ment will not tell usjhow such a won
derful thing can he done, but you
may bo sure that these lish-trped<x-s
are strange fellows. They seem to be
aide to do everything that a fish can do i
and more, for when they get angry
they can burst out into a frightful
passion and send the water flying into
the air for hundreds of feet, ami wot
to the sailors who are near! Torpedo,
ship an lin -n g to the bottom in a
volcano of lire and water. B -sides
these anch >re 1 an I swimming torpe
does there is another kind called spar
torpedoes, so named because they are
placed on th sea Is of spars or booms
that run out under water froin the
bows of small boats. Tne boats ruth
up to the sid of the big ship, in tic
dark, an I explI) the t >rp 1 under
neath, thus sinking the vessel.—
Ht. Nicholas.
A Terj Voumr Lieutenant.
The following anecdote of President
Lincoln's youngest son is taken from
"A Boy in the White House," by Noah
Brooks, in Ht. Nicholas : One day
Tad, in search of amusement, loitered
into the oflioe of the secretary of war,
and Mr. Stanton, for the fun of the
thing, commissioned him a lieutenant
of United Slates volunteers. This
elated the boy so much that he went
off immediately ami order-d a quantity
of muskets sent to the White Huuse
and then In- organized and drilled tin
liouso-servants and gardeners, and,
without attracting anybody's atten
tion, he actually discharged the regu
lar sentries alxmt the premises and
ordered his unwilling recruits on duty
as guards.
Robert Lincoln soon discovered what
hail been done, and as ho thought it a
great hardship that men who had been
at work all day should ie obliged to
keep wat h during the night to grat
ify a boyish freak, he remonstrated.
But Tad would listen to nothing from
hiseldt-r brother, and Robert appeab-d
to Ids father, who only laughed at tne
matter as a good joke. Tad soon
tired,, however, of his self
imposed duties and went to
bed. The drafted men were quietly
relieved from duty and there was no
guard at the President's mansion that
night, much to Mr. Lincoln's relief
He never approved of the precaution
of mounting guard at the White-
House. While Tad sported Ids com
mission as lieutenant he cut quite a
military llgure. From some source lie
procured a uniform suitable to hi* sup
posed rank, and thus proudly attired
he had himself phot 'graphed.
A striking subject— The hammer.
" Lady " Washington.
That celebrated woman, whom our
Revolutionary sires, in spite of their re
publicanism, called " Lady Washing
ton" was a homebody. She used to
speak of her public life in New York
and Philadelphia as her " lost days."
She preferred tho comfort and seclu
sion of Mount Vernon to the guyety
and publicity as tho wife of the Presi
dent. A lady who visited her there
draws this pen and ink sketch of Mar
tha Washington's room at her hus
band's farm : "On one side sits the
chambermaid, with her knitting; on
the other a little colored pet, learn
ing to sew. A decent-looking old
woman is there, with her table
and shears, cutting out the negroes
winter clothes; while the good
old lady direct them all, incessantly'
knitting herself. She points out to
me several pairs of nice stockings
and gloves she has just finished, and
presents me a pair half done, which
she begs 1 will finish and wear for her
sake."
Mrs. Washington's granddaughter,
Miss Nellie t'ustis, who lived with lier,
was required to practice on the
harpsichord four or five hours daily.
Miss t'ustis being young and roinan"
tie, was fund of wandering alone by
moonlight in the woods of Mount
Vernon. Iler grandmother thought it
unsafe, and scolded the young lady un
til she promised not to walk in tho
woods again unless accompanied. But
one night, her habit being too strong
to be curbed by a promise, she was
again missed and a servant was sent to
recall her from her favorite wanderings.
As soon as she entered the drawing
room, her grandmother, seated in her
great armchair, reproved her severely.
Nellie admitted that she was alone,
but offered no excuse for her trans
' gression. As she was leaving the room
| she overheard General Washington,
1 who had been walking up and down
| the room witli his hands behind him,
■ say to his wife;
-• My dear, I would say no more;
perhaps she was not alone."
j Instantly Miss Nelly returned, and
walking straight up to the general, I
j said:
I "Sir, you brought me up to speak
the truth; and when I told grandma I
was alone i hope you believe 1 was j
: alone."
The general, making one of his
most courtly bows, replied: "My
child, I beg your pardon."
To think and Not to Think.
Improve your time, my Ixiy. Put
in every minute in hom-st hard work, j
or tranquil meditation, or healthful
recreation. That is all 1 ask yon to
do. Oh, "you believe you'll select
meditation as a profession," then, do j
you? It strikes you that it is easy
work to sit and think, eh? Now, my
Imy, if you want something easy, yn j
had much better stand and chop wood. '
it isn't easy to think. Wedon'tthink i
half so much as we want to make people
believe we do. In fact, we don't think
nearly so much as we think we do.
Busy thought and aimless idleness are
often very similar in external appear- '
anre. Edison sitting Is-fore his fire- '
less forge, with his hands folded list- 1
| lessly in his lap, looking at nothing, !
may be apparently as idle, even idler,
than the man perched on the end of a
Cottonwood log, watching his cork bob
lazily in the yellow water of a sluggish
creek. But the results are in one
instance the telephone and the electric
light, and in the other, the ague and a
soft-mouthed suekei and a rat-fish four
inches long. The one dreams out mar-'
velous inventions that thrill the world
with wonder and multiply commercial
activity, and gives them to the eager,
waiting world ; or at least he sells
them to Jay Gould and Jay Gould j
s -lis thein to the world, and the other
contracts a malarial fever and gives it
to his family. It is not easy to think
we waste more time than we use, aud
the hours slip away so noiselessly ami
easily we don't know w here they have
gone.- Hurlington Hawkey*.
Extraordlna j footprints.
The Virginia City Chroniel • says
that Professor Le Conto recently vis
ited the State prison quarry at Carson.
Nov., where fossil footprints were dis
covered not long ago. A stream of
water was introduced on the quarry
floor, at tho western side, where the
walls are alxjut thirty feet high, and
was rewarded by more than a dozen
new footprints. Coming west are the
prints of the feet of a man who was
apparently dragging a heavy load after
Jiim through the mud. The traces are
turned sideways, as if the man had
sought the strongest purchase to pull
along behind him his load. On the
east side of the qnarry a little tunnel
was run in about six feet In tbe pres
ence of Professor Le Conte, and three
fresh humatf footprints were disclosed.
Evidently the owner of the feet was
plunging through deep and thick inud,
for around isvih track was forced up a
I ridge several inches iu height.
W '■ 0
I'KAIII.S (IF THOUGHT.
If every person would be half as good
as he expects lils neighbor to be what a
heaven this world would be.
Never be above your culling, or be
afraid to appear dressed in accordance
with the business you are performing.
Pack your cares in as small compass
as you can, so that you can carry them
yourself and not let them annoy oth
ers.
No man is more nobly born than an
other unless he is born with better
abilities and a morn amiable disposi
tion.
The triumph of a woman lies not in
the admiration of her lover, but in the
respect of her husband, and that only
can be gained by aconstant cultivation
of those qualities which she knows ho
most values.
It is much easier to reconcile an
enemy than to conquer him. Victory
deprives him of his power, but recon
ciliation of his will; and there is less
danger in a will which will not hurt
than in power which cannot. The
power is not so apt as the will, as the
will is studious to find out means.
Mediocrity raised to a position bo-
Fond its desert finds itself humiliated
when placed beside those humbler in
rank hut equal to the duties of tho
office to which they were raised by
merit alone. These waifs of favoritism
dwindle by comparison and stoop to
every suggestion of tneanncss and
malice to sting their humbler but more
deserving and more successful asso
ciates.
In the lives of the saddest of us
there are bright days when we feel as
if we could take the great world in
our arms. Then come I lie gloomy
days when the lire neither burn
on our hearths nor in our hearts, and
all without ami within is dismal, cold
and dark. Kvery heart has Its secret
sorrows which the world knows not ;
and oftentimes we call a man cold
i when lie is only sad.
SOKNTIHU SCIIA I*S.
Of the *220 asteroids now known,
; forty-one were discovered by l)r. Peters
and thirty-six by I)r Palisa.
It is reported that the telephone is
j now in successful operation as an ex*
pedient for communicating with divers
engaged in difficult and dangerous
work.
It is observed that trees in the peach
gardens of France, grafted <>n plum
j stock, ripen their fruit at least ten
days earlier than the same variety
graftisl on a peach stock.
The assertion is made that from an
annual cotton crop of 6,600,000 bales
simsl can be obtained to yield SIOO,-
000,000 worth of oil. It is assumed
i that every 400-pound bale gi\cs 1,200
| |Hiiinils of seed.
Thermometer*, like prophets, says
the A ruriran have no renown
in their own countries. France has
adopted the thermometer of the Swede
! Celsius; (iermany, Austria and Kus
-1 *ia that of the Frenchman lteauinur;
1 F.ngland and America that of the Ger
i man Fahrenheit, and Sweden, discard-
I ing that of her own son, is measuring
heat with the thermometer of the
Scotchman Leslie.
African exploration is to be taken up
at the point w here Livingstone laid it
down, by Lieutenant Oiraud, who has
sailed front Marseilles to Zanzibar as
the leader of aFrench expedition. His
probable route will he by the north
shore of Lake Nyassa to the Cham
bcze river; thence to itaoutlct in Lake
Ilangweolo, which he proposes to cir
cumnavigate. He proposes then to gc
in canoes down the Luahaha-Congo, to
its mouth in the Atlantic ocean—an
ambitious programme, interesting to
ill geographers.
SnufMtoxre.
Lord Petersham had the shelves of a
favorite room completely fitted with tin
?anisters, snuff-boxes and snuff-jars.
When a friend one day praised his
ight-blue Sevres snuff-box hi* lord'
ship said, in his dainty tip-toe sort of
way: "Yes, it's a nice summer box,
hut it really would not do for winter
wear." Such was the extravagant
foppery that distinguished the gentle
men of the regency. It has been record
ed of Mr. Norris, a well known snuff-
Ikix collector, that he had so maiy
tnixes that he never required to take a
pinch twice from the same receptacle.
A party of distinguished men were
once comparing snuff-boxes, when it
was found that one hail been made
from the deck of the Victory, another
from the table on which Wellington
wrote the Waterloo dispatch, a third
from Canova's footstool, a fourth from
the sign of the Hear at Device's, be
neath which Sir Thomas Lawrence be
gan to paint, and so on. Orabbe's
cudgel, the Slddon's desk, and, of
course, the mullierry tree planted by
Shakespeare, were all preserved in the
form of snuff-boxee.— Jieljrama.
i '
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The New York Finuwial Chronicle
notes the faet that the United States
government has paid of the national
debt more than one thousand millions of
dollars in seventeen years. The gov
ernment debt was at its highest point
August 31, 18(>. r . It then amounted
to $2,756,000,000, On October 1, 1882,
the debt of every description was only
$1,044,120,22:1.
General Terry is convinced from his
success in working the Northern Chey
enne Indians on their farms until they
are self-supporting, that this is the cor
rect way of disposing of the Indian .
question. On three farms tho men are j
manly, the women chaste, and all are i
anxious that tho children shall be edu
cated like the whites. He insists that i
cows will do more than soldiers in civ- |
illzlng the red men.
lleports from South Africa tell of a
financial collapse arising out of the
mania for ostrich farms, which took j
possession soine time ago of all sorts
of members of thecommunity. Those
who could not pay cash gave bills,
Milch were discounted by the banks,
but the lulls fell due before the feath
ers were grown, and birds bought for
SSOO a pair were sold for $l5O and less.
Hesides ttiis, heavy sums have been
lost in diamond speculations.
The report of the United States
commissioner of Indian affairs shows
seventy-four Imarding and one hun
dred and one day schools attended by
Indians. The number of schools is
substantially the same as a year ago,
but the numlM-r of pupils shows con
siderable increase. Fair progress has
also been mod" in agriculture. The
report shows that the work of civil
izing the aborigines is making encour
aging progress, and is fu l of promise.
The treasury department has decided
to act in accordance with the decision
if the circuit court oi San Francisco
re'ativo to tho right of Chinese sule
jeets to visit the United Slates under
the recent act of Congress. This de
cision was substantially that the
statute must be made harmonize
with the Chinese treaty, an i that the
law cannot be construed as forbidding
the landing of merchants, travelers,
students, etc., they not being laborers.
Geological examination of the delta
of the Mississippi now shows that for
a distance of iilmi it .'!'*• miles there are
buried forests of large trees, one over
the other, with interspaces of sand.
Ten distinct forest growths of this
description have been observed,
which it is believed must have suc
ceeded each other. (If three trees,
known as the bald cypress, some have
liecn found over twenty-five fed in
diameter, and one contained 5,7'U
rings; in some instances, too, huge
trees have grown over tlie stumps of
others equally large. From these
facts, geologists have assumed the
antiquity of each forest growth at
10,000 years, or 100,000 for all.
The Cincinnati Current has
putlislifsl a peanut mimticr, and gives
some interesting stat isties as to the
cultivation of this docile fruit. Few
people, says the Prinr Current, have
any Idea of the extent of the peanut
business or its increai* in the United
States. The consumption in 1877-8
was 1,066,000 bushels, in 1878-70 it
was 1,080,000 bushels, in 1870-80 it
was 1,927,000 bushels, and last year
2,108,000 bus)iels. The available su|>-
ply for the winter, according to Mr.
Murray, the editor of the Prim Cur
rent, who is a good Ju lg of peanuts, is
2,280,000, ont of which there are
130,000 bushels from Virginia, 500,000
bushels from Twines sec, and 150,000
bushels from North Carolina.
The national government has won
its suit against the city of Alexan
dria and the Alexandria Canal
company, involving the ownership
of the aqueduct bridge across the
I'otomac at Georgetown, I). C. In
1837 the government loaned Alexan
dria $350,000 to aid in the construction
of a canal. The defense was that
while the money was technically a
loan it was really a gift. Judge
Hughes, in the circuit court at Alex
andria has decided otherwise, and
directed the city of Alexandria to de
posit with the sivretary pf the treasury
three thousand five hundred shares of
the canal company's stock. The de
cision amounts to a delivery of the
canal and bridge to the government,
and it is anticipated that t hq,bridge on
which tolls are collected will be made
free.
i i—— i ii I *
Taking all tlm world, t|i United
States in 1878 hail the great est mileage
of railroad in propprtion to the popu
lation, having a little over twenty-one
milre for each 10,000 persons. In Eu
rope, Sweden led with six ami one
half miles to every 10,000 of her popu
lation.
PERILS OF BTKEPLE-CMMBING.
A Kurgir Hmrmpe of a Prnrraaloaat < II rBr
Aocrndln* Tall I klanrx.
"The longer you live the more you
lilid out," remarked Mr. Joe Weston,
the steeple eliinher, t > it number of
new,paper men lately. " I had an ac
cident lately which taught me soine
thing. It wan a curious one. You
Bee 1 was on top of St. Paul's Hpire, in
Spring street. We had rigged ropes
to remove the planks of the scaffold
ing. The way we do that is to fasten
a block to a post or tree? on the other
side of the street and another to the
steeple, and splice the ends of the rope
together to make an endless rope of it.
I had tied the last plank to the rope,
and it was going down. I wore a
handkerchief tied loosely around rny
throat. The wind blew out an end of
it and it caught on the removing rop"
and wrapped around it. It was im
mediately caught up, first the hand
kerchief and then my tieard passing
into the block. Now, if I had had an
assistant in the street la-low he would
have noticed the plank stop when i
was caught that way, and, as he could
not see anything wrong above, he
would have pulled the rojsi. Then I
should have been choked to death by
inv handkerchief, and my beard and
part of my face would have been torn
off. Persons in the street Mow would
have noticed, perhaps, that I was very
quiet, hut they would not have sus
pected that I was hanging by the nerk.
"That pull stretched ine eighteen
inches. As soon as I realized the
trouble I reached lielow, and taking
hold of a rope pulled back on it until
rny handkerchief came out of the
sheeve, and I dropped onto the hooks
of the scaffold below. I could barely
touch them with rny feet. 1 called to
•Frenrhy,' who was on the other side
of the steeple, and when he came
around I told him how it occurred.
Neither of us will wear handkerchiefs
around our necks again when we ar<-
about such jobs. Wi' were about 220
feet above the street."
" What is the highest you have ever
• limbed?" asked a bystander.
"Three hundred feet. During the
Centennial I was engaged to place a
streamer on the top of St. Paul's
church, in Fourth street. I got a mast
up there aliout fifteen feet long, fVt
• aed it to the big hand and a flag to
it. I "ha l a truck' on top <>f the JH>IC,
and I rliiiilwxl up to that and stuck a
fishing pole in the truck' and stood
!on the top of the mast. I was then
30" fee t abo\ e fhe pavement in Fourth
street, Hy means of the fishing pole
you can steady yourself anywhere you
■an stand at all, if you can < rily put
your hand on something tolerably
-toady. K\* nif you only touch your
linger to a pole or something of that
sort it will help you."
•• I>o you only work in Cincinnati ?"
" No, I am sent for from different
' part s of tha country around h> re. The
way we have of ascending tall chim
neys would interest you. We put up
a ladder and 1 go up to the top, where
I fasten it by a rope passes] around
the chimney. In tying the rope I
leave a loop in it for the liottom of the
next ladder. Hy this time my assist
ant lias brought another ladder up,
which I pass through the loop until
the Ixittom rests firmly on the first
ladder. Then I walk up that lad
der with the help of another
rope passed around the chim
ney. No matter if the lad
der leans away over from the chim
ney, or to either side, you must not
touch it As I lift my right foot to
the next rung I lift my right hand.
I working the rope up. Then the left
hand and foot, depending for steadi
ness all the time on the rope. When I
reach the foot of the laid* r I draw it
close to the wall by pulling on the rope,
and tie it there, Hy working the rope
up so that it is higher than the top of
the lalder on the opposite side of th
chimney you are enabled to throw the
weight of ra -h la Ider on the chimney,
and any weight on the ladder is a
strain on the chimney, not on the lad
der lielow.
" Our men, when they are new to
the work, never fall. They hold on
mighty tight. The only trouble we
have with then is aliout the tools.
They are apt to.lay them on projecting
cornices, or other such tempting places,
where a rope sometimes catches a
heavy bar and sends it down into the
stfeet. If one of those tools struck a
man befow it wAmld go clean through
liiin. Why, one man dr<>p|>cd a heavy
chisel, with a blade two inches broad,
from the latheiitai spire one day. It
struck two heavy joists which were
lying below, ahd tha Made passed
through both tunlsc*. Where would
a man have Wn If lie find stood be
low. 1 * —iic/o tmtl Knquirtr,
Holroke, Maw., Is tocmpl w 100 men
and #100,1)00 in the manufacture of s
sealskin so n< nrly like the natural fiir
that a seal itself couldn't detect the
I difference.
Rest,
Ont from the groat world's crash sad diat
I Oat from the pain, and wrong, and slat
! I Hit from ambition's cruel strife;
Out from the bitter r.veof life;
' Out from its honors and affairs;
j Out from its horrors and its cares,
Again, a child, Ist lay at rest, >
i In holy peuce on his ucdher'a breast.
Her gentle hand toyed in his hair;
Her sweet, lierir voiec dispelled his oere;
Iter b/ving eyes shed light divine;
i Her very presence mode a shrine;
His throbbing arteries ceased to teem;
The madding world a sod, past dream; i
Again, a child, he lay st rest.
In holy jxsace on his mother's -'J reset.
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
November 30— Autumn leaves.
It's c.'tsy finding reasons why otheu
jieojile should he patient.
Hanged heads are fashionable arrionj
ladies and the prize ring only.
A statistician has estimated tiial
courtships average three tons of coal
each.
In trade what article is usually COD
sidered an occupying the foremost
rank? Strong butter.
Tliis season's vesta will furnish
patches for next year's trousers. Sweet
are the uses of diversity. '
And now has mine the wintry breeze
And ktop{4-d as sure as fate.
Tins swapping taffy unath the trees,
And chinning o'er the gate.
This is a hurry-cane in earnest
thought the boy as the oid man rained
the blows upon his shouldem with
lightning rapidity.
A man with a plugged half-dollar
in his pocket is troubled by the pangl
of conscience until he drops it in tha'
contribution box at church.
Lava from Vesuvius is said to make
the best pavement in Europe. The
i paving apjx-ars to have been a trifle
overdone in the case of Pompeii and
llerculancum.
A fashion exchange says ; " There
w ill be no change in skirts during the
winter season." This will send the
gaunt wolf how ling to the door uf the I
jKr washerwoman.
"This decorative art business is
being run into the ground," quietly
observed a practical farmer as he
drove'down a hand-painted croquet
stake for a tethering post,
i Mrs. Howe* says women do not fall
in love any more. This may t>e true
women may m<t fall in love any
hut many of them do some awful tall
stumbling in that direction.
Tommy don't like fat meat. One
day the steak was very fat. " Tom
my," asked the professor, "will you
have some beefsteakf" "Yes, sir;
but I don't want any that has pork
all around it."
tin the facade of one of the principal
liob Is in Vichy, France, is the an
nouncement; "All language* spoken
here." A tourist entering plies the
host with English, Spanish, Rus
sian, etc. Seeing that the good fellow
t understands never a word, he inquires
w ho it is in the hotel who speaks every
tongue. Then mine host with dignity
responds: "The travelers, sir."
" 1 say, fellows," exclaimed Fogg,
" Hrown and his wife have separated.'
"XoP* "Is that so?" "How did it
come about?" "I always thought it
would come to that." '"Gums it'll l>e
better for l>oth of 'em." These were
a few of the expressions that fell from
the lips of the boys as they eagerly
crowded around Fogg. "Yes," said
Fogg, "the Frowns have separated. I
> saw Hrown kiss Mrs. B. good-bye at %
the depot just now. He said he would
l>e liack to-iuorrow."
A Sharp est lon toth- Hi-hop.
When Bishop Whitaker was in Can
delaria, Xev„ he took a stroll in the
outskirts of the camp with a party of
ladies and godly gentlemen. A man
was seen laboriously turning a wind
lass which hoisted from a shaft a
bucket filled with rock The only
thing remarkable about the man at the
I windlass was his hat, the crown of
| which was cut clcsn off. allowing the
j hot sun to pour down upon a perfectly
Uald head, some waggish friend hav
recommended this arrangement as
sure to produce a crop of hair.
| The bishop and his party stood
watching the man toiling and
grunting at his heavy labor
for several minutes, and the kind
hearted clergyman spoke up with <xm
] ccrn, and said:
j "My friend, why don't you cover up
your head ? This hot sun will affect
your brain."
i " Drain, is It?" cried the man. as he
gave the windlass another heavily
creaking revolution. " Begoh, an' if I
had any brains d'ye think I'd be here
pulliu' up this bucket?"
I The bishop and Ills part y hastily ra
ti ri-d as the gentleman at the windlass
j proceeded to express, between tugs and
'in a very strong way, his opinion of
1 in who had lee;i born, like himself,
| without brains.
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